According to the Hollywood Reporter, producer Mike Medavoy (whose other production credits include "Shutter Island" and "Black Swan") has snapped up the rights to the story, and "Motorcycle Diaries" scribe Jose Rivera has been enlisted to adapt the screenplay.

"Like millions of people around the world, I was completely engrossed watching the rescue at Copiapo," says Medavoy, who spent a decade living in Chile as a kid. "At its heart, this is a story about the triumph of the human spirit and a testament to the courage and perseverance of the Chilean people. I can't think of a better story than this one to bring to the screen."

The movie, of course, will retrace how the workers became trapped underground and the rescue efforts that captivated news viewers worldwide. Production is slated to begin next year.

Added miner Juan Andres Illanes, “One year after the collapse of the mine, we consider this to be a great step towards the realization of a film based on our experience in the mine," he says, according to THR. "This is the only official and authorized film about what we lived in the San José mine. Much of our story has never been told.”

Just tell me the miners are going to be compensated appropriately. This was one of the more compelling stories of human survival I have ever seen and it would be a travesty if everyone profited except the miners themselves.

I am confused to as why a movie would be made because of what these guys went through. Why doesn't their own country make a movie of that?? There are so many things wrong with the country I was born in. Now these individuals will pretty soon if not already be driving around in jaguars and BMW's in a country that is not there own...geez.

Hey Eric: come on lad, get a life! if these fellas succeded after enduring such ordeal, it is only fair that they would taste some of the good thing. Envy is a bad thing you know, it kills you from within and corrodes everybody else around ye. Do something worth filming about and I bet you'll be knocking every door to get a share of the profit.